As the commander of Xiang Fa, of course, was the first to stand up to report, "Your Highness, the Yangzhou Xiang army has been transferred to Jiangning Prefecture. Now the Jiangdu city is empty and there are no soldiers to garrison. It is better for us to send troops to seize Jiangdu directly and capture Li Yanqing alive. Your Highness, this is an opportunity, and we must not miss it!"

"No!"

Liu Yanqing stood up and said, "We have the advantage of defense now, both the naval army blockade on the Yangtze River and the geographical advantage of the south bank of the Yangtze River. If we go north, there will be no way out, which will easily lead to the annihilation of the entire army. Please think twice!"

Xiang Fa said very dissatisfied: "If our entire army is destroyed, we must have an army on the other side. Now there are no soldiers in Yangzhou and Jiangdu is an empty city. Li Yanqing will transfer at most one thousand flask troops from Chuzhou. Can this thousand flask troops destroy our entire army?"

At this time, Xiang Zongliang waved his hand and sighed, "Xiang Shuai's plan itself is good, but unfortunately I have missed the opportunity."

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, he said, "Li Yanqing used the excuse of stolen goods to dismiss Wu Zhuo and killed Wu Zhuo and his son as enemies. Everyone thought that Li Yanqing was taking personal revenge because Wu Zhuo's son offended Li Yanqing before, and even I thought so. But now it seems that this is just a trick of Li Yanqing. He deceived us first, making us think that he was just to vent his personal grudges and did not discover the gathering of troops in Jiangning. Then he immediately dispatched troops secretly and let ten thousand troops gather in Yangzhou quickly. I just got the news that 10,000 troops had arrived in Jiangdu, and I realized that I was fooled and missed the opportunity for Li Yanqing to be in the empty city of Jiangdu."

"Have Li Yanqing's army arrived in Jiangdu?" Everyone was shocked.

Xiang Zongliang nodded, "Not only 10,000 troops arrived in Jiangdu, but also the three Ruan brothers in Chuzhou also defected to Li Yanqing. They had a thousand navy troops and more than 200 warships. This is also the reason why I came to the military camp. Everyone should prepare for the war."

Xiang Zongliang said a few words and hurriedly left, sent his second uncle away, Xiang Fa sat back on the position of commander. He glanced at the generals in the tent and said slowly: "Your Highness the Prince just told me that although the troops were not large and the army had not yet been assembled, we would not attack the south for a while, but our defense must be done well, General Lei!"

He immediately stood up from the general. This person was Red, the commander of the navy. He was once a famous water thief in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. He was tall, with thick beards and thick eyebrows, a face full of flesh, and a very fierce appearance. He personally persuaded Xiang Zongliang and promised him to be the county duke and be named the general, which made Red lead the crowd to surrender.

Currently, Red has 3,000 naval troops and hundreds of warships of all sizes. Since the Song Dynasty's naval troops were transferred to the Yellow River and the warships were captured by the Jin soldiers, there were no tigers in the mountains and monkeys dominated. Red's naval troops were already the largest naval army on the Yangtze River.

Red walked out and bowed, "I'm in a humble position!"

Xiang Fa nodded, "Although Li Yanqing will not attack for the time being, we must prevent him from attacking. If the opponent attacks, it will most likely target the navy, so you should be extra careful."

"I understand, I will send additional personnel to patrol the water village!"

Jiangning Prefecture Water Village is located on the Yangtze River outside the city. This water village was built when the imperial court wiped out Fang La's rebellion. At that time, there were thousands of naval warships, which made the water village cover a huge area, with a length of more than ten miles along the coast. It was dense wooden stakes were built around, making it difficult for ordinary small boats to enter.

However, Red had only hundreds of ships, and he couldn't use the water village to be too big, so he couldn't prevent it. Red used wooden stakes to separate the water village into two sections, and he only used half of them himself.

The water camp mainly stores warships, but there is still a dry village on the shore, which is the place where soldiers are stationed, and three thousand naval soldiers are stationed on the shore.

At night, the river water slapped the embankment, and a waning moon appeared and disappeared in the dark clouds. The river surface was pitch black, and occasionally dark silver light waves appeared. Patrol boats were passing by in the water village from time to time, and the guard was very tight.

At this time, there were two black shadows faintly beside the wooden fence outside the water village. These were two people wearing black water backs. Their heads were exposed on the water surface and they used the cover of the wooden fence to observe the scene in the water village. When a patrol fleet arrived from front of them, the two immediately sank into the water. There were only two thin reed tubes on the water surface, close to the wooden fence. These two reed tubes were too thin, let alone blocked by the wooden fence, it would be difficult to find even if the ship was in front of them.

The patrol fleet quickly passed by them. When the fleet went away, the two spies slowly showed their heads and looked at each other, their eyes showing a look of surprise. The patrol sent tonight was obviously stronger than yesterday. Did Red find something?

At this time, a spy pointed to the southwest corner, and the other understood that they discovered a small defensive flaw yesterday, but today the flaw is still there, which means that the other party has indeed ignored it.

The two of them immediately dived into the water and swam deep into the Yangtze River. Soon, they boarded the small boat that they met, and the boat turned around and headed toward the other side.

Jun Yanei, Li Yanqing frowned after listening to the reports of the two spies, "Are you saying that the other party suddenly increased its vigilance?"

"Qi Wei, during the day we found that the other party did not have so many patrol boats, but it suddenly doubled at night."

"Can you specially increase your defense at night?" asked Ruan Xiaoer next to him.

The spy shook his head, "Yesterday's patrol was the same as today's day. It was at dusk, and the patrol boats suddenly doubled, as if they heard some news."

Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and asked Zhang Shun: "Is there any news about the navy in Ezhou?"

Zhang Shun said carefully: "It will take four or five days to go to Ezhou from us. I guess they only received the order to send troops today. Bei Zhi thinks the problem should not be in Ezhou."

At this time, Ruan Xiaowu said, "It should be that the other party has a spy in Yangzhou. When our ship arrived in Jiangdu, the other party must have known it. He was afraid that we would attack him, so he increased his vigilance."

Li Yanqing also felt that Ruan Xiaowu was right, and that should be the case.

He thought about it and asked again: "You are all heroes in the water. If you attack the water camp, what do you think is the biggest difficulty?"

Zhang Shun knew Li Yanqing better and asked, "Digong's sneak attack refers to a fire attack?"

Li Yanqing nodded, "I really meant fire attack."

Ruan Xiaoer pondered for a moment and said, "The opponent's defense is so tight. The biggest trouble is probably how to transport the fire-induced objects into the water camp. If you forcefully break through, the opponent's water camp will be too big and its effect will not be too big."

At this time, the two spies looked at each other and said to the lead spy: "We also discovered a flaw on the other side, which may be beneficial to the fire attack."

Li Yanqing was overjoyed and there was a flaw. He hurriedly said, "Tell me quickly, what flaw have you discovered?"

The flaw discovered by the two spies is located in the southwest corner, where dozens of thousand-stone warships are parked here. Red's flaw is that these dozens of thousand-stone warships are too close to the water village fence, only about a few hundred steps. Although hundreds are not close, it is still a little distance, but compared with the distance of several miles, it is not worth mentioning.

The reason for this flaw is not that Redd lacks experience, but because of hydrological limitations, generally Thousand Stone warships will be parked in the river. Because Redd lacks military force and cannot make large-scale alerts, hence the ships docked and moored. Not only can the patrols in the water observe and defend, but the patrols on the shore can also take into account both, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

But there are gains and losses. Because these dozens of Thousand Stone warships have deep drafts and shallow water levels in other places, it is easy to cause the ship to get stuck. Only the water area in the southwest corner is deeper and can dock with Thousand Stone warships, so they are closer to the fence.

Red actually knew this flaw, but he decided to dock all the ships by taking advantage of the two hatches. As for this flaw, he decided to solve it by strengthening the sentry.

He placed three fixed wardrobes within a distance of hundreds of steps, a total of twenty people, constantly monitoring the periphery of the fence day and night.

It was two o'clock in the night again. Compared with the moonlight that appeared and disappeared yesterday, the moonlight tonight was not bad. The moonlight was bright and the stars were sparse. The entire water village was covered with a light silver color, and there were light waves flashing on the water surface. More than thirty were sentry boats patrolling back and forth in the water village, and hundreds of sentries patrolling back and forth on the shore.

At this moment, a rapid alarm bell suddenly came from beside the fence on the east side, "Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!" The alarm bell rang quickly, and several fire boats suddenly appeared on the river and rushed towards the fence on the east side.

All the soldiers rushed to the east, and the fixed sentries in the southwest corner could not hold back. They left their posts and went east to support them. The sentries on the shore had already rushed to the east.
Chapter completed!